Minutes and hours in Ofer are like a thousand years.

- Torture, starvation, electrocution and forced urine drinking.

- A minute in Ofer passed like a thousand years.

- 15 prisoners were put in a cell.

They beat our hands until they broke and treated us like animals.

- Let go of the dogs that gnawed at our bodies.

“One of the prisoners asked for a drink of water, so the soldier urinated in a bottle and forced him to drink it,” said the young prisoner, Mohammed Abu Saif (18 years old), who narrated the details of the death journey that he and the rest of the prisoners experienced within the walls of Ofer Prison.

Abu Saif told Al-Quds.com: “This is not a prison, but hell. We saw death in all its forms, and every minute we spent inside it was like a thousand years.”

Abu Saif's journey of suffering began when he was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces at a military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip, along with a number of civilian citizens.

He continues: “The soldiers beat and tortured me, and all along my way to prison they called me obscene and vulgar words, until I reached a prison whose name I don’t know but which was a barrack.” He adds: “I wanted to sleep inside it.”

Not only that, but the soldiers tied Muhammad's hands and feet and blindfolded him in a retaliatory policy that the Israeli occupation follows with all detainees in Gaza.

He added: "They forced us to kneel down, not move, and look right and left. We only slept from 12 midnight until 4 am, then we returned to the torture, abuse, and beatings."

Mohammed spent twelve days inside the barracks, then the soldiers took him away in a tanker. He added: “All the way, they beat me with the muzzles of their weapons, spat on me, and called me the worst names.”

To Ofer prison, Muhammad was transferred and the chapters of suffering and tragedy began for him physically and psychologically. He says: “Ofer prison was very bad, lacking the most basic necessities of life, and we were 15 prisoners inside the cell, most of us were forced to sleep on the floor.”

From the mouth of the cell door, the Israeli soldier Mohammed was forced to put his hands outside it. In the details, there is another death experienced by the prisoners inside Ofer prison. He narrates: “The soldier forced us to take our hands out of the mouth, then he beats them until they break.”

Not only that, but the soldier also released police dogs to storm the cell on them. He continues: “The dogs attacked us, and some of us suffered bruises and contusions, not to mention the state of panic and terror that the soldiers instill in our psyche to torture us.”

About the most difficult situations that Mohammed experienced inside the prison? He says: “When the soldier spat in the mouth of one of the prisoners just because he asked for food.” He adds: “I spent 41 days in the occupation’s prisons and it was truly hell.”

Another death was experienced by prisoner Ahmed Al-Wadiyya inside Ofer prison. He told Al-Quds.com: “The soldier tied my hands and eyes, stripped me of my clothes, hung me by my hands, and began to beat my body with electric shocks.”

He describes the moment he was electrocuted: “It was one of the most deadly moments. I never imagined I would survive. This is madness and revenge committed by the soldiers against us.”

Ahmed was arrested from inside his home in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, when the Israeli occupation surprised the neighborhood by bombing it from the air and land and launching a military operation that lasted for two weeks.

He says: “We were trapped inside the house for ten days, and the next day the soldiers stormed the house and forced the women to go out towards the west, then they forced us to take off our clothes and interrogated us for three days.”

The soldiers transferred Ahmed to Sufa prison, where he was tortured, abused and humiliated in the most severe ways. He recounts: “I spent 15 days in Sufa prison, and every day was a new and more severe torture than the one before.”

From Sufa prison to Ofer prison, and between them there were various types of death. He continues: “The soldiers would prevent us from eating and drinking, and they would only give us food once a day. Our health declined and we lost half our weight. All of this affected our physical and psychological health.”

“When I entered prison, I knew what it meant to be a prisoner,” said prisoner Adham Bahar, as he began his talk about his suffering inside Ofer Prison.

He told Al-Quds.com: “They tortured us in the most severe ways, and when we got sick, the soldiers refused to take us to see a doctor, deliberately neglecting our health to the point of death.”

He added: "When the prisoner foams white from his mouth, only then do they take him to the hospital. Otherwise, they leave him to suffer in his pain."

He asks in frustration and helplessness: "What does it mean, in Ofer Prison?"

He continues: "They beat me and insulted me. They did not treat me as a human being or as a human being. They treated me as a human animal, nothing more."

Adham spent twenty days in a prison in the Gaza Strip, then the soldiers transferred him to Ofer Prison. He describes the prison, saying: “It is hell, an iron cage, where you are forbidden to eat or drink, let alone move, or even if you forget and look to the right, you are exposed to torture and abuse.”

He continues: “Once, police dogs broke into the cell and bit me, not to mention my ghost with my hands raised and then the soldier electrocuted me.”